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Qualcomm hires former AMD ray tracing expert for its GPU team
By Jeff Butts published
Qualcomm's Adreno GPU in its Snapdragon Elite X has failed to meet gaming expectations. The recent hire of a ray tracing expert could change that.

Micron says GDDR7 will provide a 30% improvement in gaming
By Aaron Klotz published
In a press release, Micron revealed that its GDDR7 will provide 30% greater frame rates than its older GDDR6 memory in ray tracing and rasterized video games.

Basemark Breaking Limit benchmark tests ray traced gaming performance across diverse platforms
By Christopher Harper published
Basemark through GPUScore introduces a cross-platform ray tracing benchmark, Breaking Limit.

3DMark's Time Spy successor, Steel Nomad, makes Nvidia's RTX 4090 work hard, without ray tracing
By Aaron Klotz published
Steel Nomad is a new 3DMark benchmark that is replacing Time Spy after eight years. The benchmarking tool features more demanding graphics that bring the latest generation of GPUs to their knees.

PlayStation 5 Pro Enhanced requirements allegedly leaked
By Christopher Harper published
Leaked PS5 Pro documents verified by Insider Gaming suggest the existence of "Trinity Enhanced" PS5 Pro titles, or more simply, PS5 Pro Enhanced titles akin to those of the PS4 Pro prior.

Diablo IV's new ray tracing update is live
By Aaron Klotz published
Ray tracing and upscaling and frame generation, oh my!

New Microsoft tech aims to boost ray-tracing performance in VRAM-constrained scenarios
By Aaron Klotz published
Microsoft has published a performance-optimizing patent for ray-tracing, that is designed to reduce the memory footprint of workloads via an RT level of detail system.

Ray tracing can run without a GPU, if you like slideshows — Quake II RTX demoed at 1 FPS with CPU-based ray-tracing
By Mark Tyson published
A Mesa 3D Graphics Library developer has implemented support for CPU-based ray-tracing in Vulkan. In early testing of the driver in Quake II RTX only 1FPS performance was achieved, but it's a start.
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